My 1st legit wheel cleaning disaster…

[Eldorado2k]

That's pretty wild. Based on how this played out, I'd say the finish was toast before they truck every came into your possession.

Did you touch/feel the wheels when they were dry before cleaning? From what you describe I wouldn't be shocked if the finish came off on your finger with just a swipe.

I didn’t touch them beforehand, but afterwards I did and I had a bunch of that black paint come onto my fingers like soot. So I sprayed 1 wheel again and quickly hit it with a wheel brush hoping the black would clean off but it didn’t.

Afterwards the surface felt rough almost like concrete for lack of a better word.

[Setec Astronomy]

Oh, this was from a used-car dealer?

No, he’s just a guy who sells cars as a side hustle.

I was just trying to see a silver lining in this if it was a dealer who would send you his bad cars...I guess that's kind of a mixed blessing.

[Coatingsarecrack]

I can’t find it but I’m guessing brown royals being non acidic but advertised as a touchless wheel cleaner has a VERY high PH. Old paint on wheels couldn’t handle the truth….


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[Desertnate]

I can’t find it but I’m guessing brown royals being non acidic but advertised as a touchless wheel cleaner has a VERY high PH. Old paint on wheels couldn’t handle the truth….

A quick Google search pulled up an old post from here at AG and it's mentioned Brown Royal has a PH of 10 or 12. That's really high on the basic side of the scale. So technically it is non acid, but it is very basic and still corrosive in it's own right. That seems a little disingenuous...non acidic, but high PH.

[Setec Astronomy]

A quick Google search pulled up an old post from here at AG and it's mentioned Brown Royal has a PH of 10 or 12. That's really high on the basic side of the scale. So technically it is non acid, but it is very basic and still corrosive in it's own right. That seems a little disingenuous...non acidid, but high PH.

Disingenuous is the middle name of wheel cleaner marketing. The worst was the ABF wheel cleaners, which claimed to be "non-HF" because Ammonium Bi-Fluoride is a salt...which when mixed with water...becomes hydrofluoric acid. We had a member on Autopia who went ballistic when he found out a popular "non-HF" product he was using...turned out to be HF in disguise.

[Agent6er]

I wonder if they were originally black and had a bad repaint?

[Eldorado2k]

I wonder if they were originally black and had a bad repaint?

Highly doubt it, but you never know…
Here’s some pics from when I detailed it 3yrs. ago. It was cherry when I detailed it then.
3yrs. of baking in the sun did it no favors.

[Agent6er]

In your defense, you can see the black coming though the silver in the first picture. The front passenger wheel is clear, it was starting back then.

I can see in on the driver side also, but not as obvious.

[Desertnate]

In your defense, you can see the black coming though the silver in the first picture. The front passenger wheel is clear, it was starting back then.

I can see in on the driver side also, but not as obvious.

I noticed that too. Before even reading the text in the post, my eye caught that passenger side wheel and noticed something not looking quite right. The finish doesn't look right.